Valley Creek Veterinary Hospital owner honored with 2025 Veterinarian of the Year Award

Dr. Frances Kendrick, owner of an animal hospital in Selma, was honored with the 2025 Veterinarian of the Year Award by the Alabama Veterinarian Medical Association (ALVMA). 

Kendrick owns Valley Creek Veterinary Hospital on Citizen's Parkway in Selma. According to a profile online, she graduated College of Veterinary Medicine at Auburn University in the Class of 1992.

She served as a liaison to the Alabama Department of Conservation in Dallas County before opened Valley Creek Veterinary Hospital, LLC in October 2001. She focuses primarily on small animal internal medicine and surgery and dentistry.

She has served on the board of SABRA Sanctuary and the Central AL Animal Shelter and on the PTO in the Dallas County School System. 

"She's a servant," said Dr. George Wood, retired from Selma Animal Hospital, in a video by ALVMA. "I mean, that's it. She wants to serve. And I think anybody who wants to serve and gives at the best of their ability to do the job that they've been asked to do are deserving of so much more than what we ever give them as far as their praise." 

See the video here.